Other changes are more successful. In this case, I managed to stay away from single player video games (with the exception of helping Rowen and Janelle with a couple of boss fights) for the entire time. I know these sacrifices to be temporary, and as proof, I quickly dove into my Easter gift of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake after the Easter Vigil.
However, there are a few changes that I manage to keep more permanent. This daily blog is an example of one such added habit that started with a Lenten promise. For this year, I think I might stick with my ban on phone games; we will see how long that lasts, but I have certainly done more reading with that activity halted. Another one that I would like to extend from this Lent (yes, I had several things I gave up this Lent) is my commenting on, or writing my own, political posts.
That was SO hard to give up and I was not always successful, especially with the charged political atmosphere that this current crisis has brought. Every day I struggled to not comment or write my own post on this political issue or that, yet I noticed that my lack of comment probably was not noticed. I also saw as people who were corrected (and who needed to be corrected) of their short-sighted, narrow-minded, and sometimes downright malicious views only dug in their heels more when confronted.
Thus, I'm going to try to keep my political comments and posts curtailed even though Lent is over. I know that I won't succeed all of the time (I couldn't all of the way through Lent), but I need to better focus my energies on more constructive activities ... like finishing this amazing remake of Final Fantasy Seven. Midgar won't save itself, you know.